Wifetheif
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Many of us wonder if we are cramming too many fetishes into our stories. I doubt any of us lay them on as thick as Alex Raymond. How about Three Fetishes (or more) in one Sunday strip? In panel one, Flash lives out the nurse fantasy while the insanely hot, and any anything but frigid, Queen Fria tends to his leg injury. Note her eyeline captures his, no doubt, well imagined junk. In panel two, Dale Arden flashes a lot of leg and has a passel of potential perils hanging over her. The chief does NOT seem inclined to take no for an answer. Will he resort to violence? Some nasty non-consent action? He's not only an ugly giant, but he's also brown. Depending on the tastes of the housewives or young adult females reading this over their morning coffee, it is either a nightmare or a dark sexual fantasy. Finally, poor Prince Ronal, who rescued Dale and with whom he seemed to share a mutual infatuation is subjected to bondage! Just routine Sunday morning breakfast conversation in depression-era America!
Seriously, the stuff Alex Raymond got away with week after week is staggering. Imagine how staid journalism of the era would have reported on the events in these three panels? Squeaky clean and incomplete.
The point is that, usually, fetishes take a gentle hand. Laying too many on at once can overwhelm the reader. Pulling this many off at once takes rare skill. How many have you placed in a story. How many is too many?